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Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary

20 pointsby ductionistover 5 years ago

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schoenover 5 years ago
I thought from the headline that this was going to involve paying someone else to pray the rosary for you, or else just clicking and having it count as having prayed a rosary.<p>But it looks like it&#x27;s more like a gamified app to teach people this prayer (albeit at pretty high cost and risk of obsolescence).<p>I think it&#x27;s interesting that in parts of Buddhism there <i>is</i> a sort of substitute for personally reading or reciting religious texts such as sutras and mantras: the prayer wheel and the prayer flag, where just having a copy of the text move is considered to generate some kind of spiritual merit or benefit. I&#x27;m not sure how universal this is in Buddhism or what the differences are between personal recitation and, say, turning a prayer wheel.
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Arbalestover 5 years ago
Press &#x27;F&#x27; to pay respects.
soaredover 5 years ago
Interesting juxtaposition between generic tech companies&#x2F;apps that have stupidly lofty goals like changing the world, and this app that has the lofty goal of world peace.
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